Festival/event TOWN: Gudhjem
1997 (NB) festival/event DATES: June 7-13 1997
1998 (NB) festival/event DATES: June 6-12 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Baltic Media Centre, Skippergade 8,
town: Svaneke
country: Denmark
post code: DK-3740
office telephone: +45 70 20 20 02
office fax: +45 70 20 20 01
office e-mail address: balticmediacentre@bmc.dk
website: http://www.dk-web.com/bmc
name of festival DIRECTOR: Bent Noerby Bonde
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Hanne Nimskov
Deadline for entry: January 31, 1998
- market? yes
- competition? yes
Name of major award: First prize in the Film Category
Value of award: Changes from year to year
Last winning film: "Sergei Eisenstein: An Autobiografy"
Director of winning film: Oleg Kovalov (Russia)
Theme: The festival is primarily for documentaries, shorts and animations from the Baltic sea area.
Festival du Nouveau Cinema de Montreal (Montreal, New York,
Juan-Les-Pins)
(Montreal, 5-15 June; New York, 16-22 June; Juan-Les-Pins, France,
1-7 July)
3726 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2V8, Canada
Tel: +1-514-843 4725
Fax: +1-514-843 4631
E-Mail: nouveau.festival@spherenet.com
Festival director: Claude Chamberlan
Competition
Le louve d’Or (US$4,200)
Previous winner: En Avoir ou pas (Laetitia Masson)
Golden Prague International TV Festival
5-10 June (tbc)
Czech TV, International Relations, Kaveci Hory 140 70, Prague 4, Czech Republic
Tel: +42-2-6113 4405
Fax: +42-2-6121 2891
Festival director: Jirí Vejvoda
Competition
Golden Prague (DM10,000)
Previous winner: Madame Butterfly
International Film Festival Cinematograph (Innsbruck)
5-9 June
CineVision, c/o Cinematograph, Museumstrasse 31, Innsbruck, Austria 6020
Tel: +43-512-580723
Fax: +43-512-581762
Programme director: Helmut Groschup
Audience award
Previous winner: Swaham
Shots in the Dark, Mystery & Thriller Festival (Nottingham)
5-15 June
Broadway Media Centre, 14 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, UK
Tel: +44-115-952 6600
Fax: +44-115-952 6622
E-Mail: broadway@bwymedia.demon.co.uk
Festival director: Gill Henderson
Festival programmer: Gill Henderson
Deadline for entry: 28 March
Sydney Film Festival
6-21 June
PO Box 950, Glebe, NSW 2037, Sydney, Australia
Tel: +61-2-9660 3844
Fax: +61-2-9692 8793
E-Mail: info@sydfilm-fest.com.au
website: http://www.sydfilm-fest.com.au
Festival director/programmer: Paul Byrnes
Competition
Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (A$2,500 for each award)
Previous winner: La Cloche (Bart Groen)
Deadline for entry: 7 March
International French Film Festival T|bingen - Stuttgart
Festival/event TOWN: T|bingen, Germany
1996 festival/event DATES: June 19th to June 26th
1997 festival/event DATES: June 18th to June 25th
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Filmtage Tuebingen e.V., Oesterbergstr. 9
town: Tuebingen
country: Germany
post code: D-72074
office telephone: +49-7071-56960
office fax: +49-7071-569696
office e-mail address: Filmtage. Tuebingen@T-Online.de
Web www.cityinfonetz.de/filmtage/00.html
name of festival DIRECTOR: Dieter Betz, Stefanie Schneider
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Dieter Betz
Deadline for entry: 10 weeks before the beginning of the Festival
- market? no
- competition? yes
If the festival is competitive, please supply
Name of major award: Flying Camera
Value of award: DM 10.000
Last winning film: Des nouvelles du Bon Dieu
Director of winning film: Didier Le Pjcheur
Banff TV Festival
8-14 June 1997
June 7-13, 1998
PO Box 219, Suite 9000, Banff, Alberta, Canada, T0L 0C0
Tel: +1-403-678 9260
Fax: +1-403-678 9269
Festival director: Dr Jerry Ezekiel
Competition
Les Prix Rockie de Banff
Previous winner: Pride and Prejudice
Web www.banfftvfest.com
E-mail: info@banfftvfest.com
Festival de Cine de Huesca
8-14 June
Address:
Avda. Parque, 1 piso, 22002 Huesca, Spain
or Apdo. de Correos 174, 22080 Huesca (Spain)
Tel: +34-74-212582
Fax: +34-74-210065
Festival director: José Maria Escriche
Competition
Danzante de oro (1,000,000 pesetas)
Previous winner: Stikk i Hjertet (Nina F Crunfeld)
E-mail: huescafest@tsai.es
Web www.tsai.es/pymes/festival_cine_huesca
International Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
10-14 June
Koncertna Direkcija Zagreb, Animafest, 41000 Zagreb, Kneza Nislava 18, Croatia
Tel: +385 1 410 134/410 128
Fax: +385 1 410 134/443 022
E-Mail: ANIMAFEST.Z@CARNet.HR
Contact: Iva Stipetic
Competition
Grand Prix (18,000 Kunas)
Midnight Sun Film Festival (Sodankylä)
11-15 June
Malminkatu 36, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-0-685 2242
Fax: +358-0-694 5560
Festival director: Peter von Bagh
Festival programmer: Göran Michelsson
Florida Film Festival
14-23 June
Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751, US
Tel: +1-407 629 1088
Fax: +1-407 629 6870
E-Mail: filmfest@gate.net
Festival director: Sigrid Piedpike
Competition
Grand Jury Award
Previous winner: Sticato, Pur of Exhaust (LM Meza)
St Petersburg International Film Festival
14-21 June
12 Karavannya St, 191099 St Petersburg, Russia
Tel: +7-812-235 2660
Fax: +7-812-235 2660
Festival director: Mikhail Litvyyakov
Festival programmer: Tatyana Sokolova
Competition
Previous winner: Liev siedoi borodoi (Andrei Hrzanovski)
Deadline for entry: 1 April
International Hamburg Short Film Festival
18-22 June
Kurtzfilmagentur, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49-40-439826-122
Fax: +49-40 39826-123
E-Mail: markusschaefer@hamburg.netsurf.de
Market & Competition
Hamburger Kurzfilmpreis (DM5,000)
The Smell of Burning Ants (Jay Rosenblatt)
19-29 June
Vialle Mazzini 14, I-00195 Rome, Italy,
Tel: +39-6-37 51 49 96
Fax: +39-6-361 3401
Secretary general: Paolo Battistuzzi
Prix Italia for radio and TV programmes (L15 million each)
Festival of Festivals
23-30 June
10 Kamennoostrovsky Proezd, St Petersburg, 197101, Russia
Tel: +7-812-237 0304
Fax: +7-812-237 0304
Festival director: Alexander Mamontov
Festival programmer: Nickolai Ovsyannikov
International Advertising Film Festival (Cannes)
23-28 June
Woolverstone House, 61/62 Berners Street, London W1P 3AE
Tel: +44-71-636 6122
Fax: +44-71-636 6086
e-mail: adfestcannes.com
Festival director/programmer: Charles Sciberras
Market & Competition
Lions Award
Deadline for entry: March 1997
Filmfest München
28 June-5 July
c/o IMF GmbH, Kaiserstraße 39, D-80801 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 38 19 040
Fax: +49-89 38 19 04 27
Festival director: Eberhard Hauff
There is no competition but special awards are given
Montreal International Festival on Cinema and New Media
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero/Il Cinema Ritrovato
(Festival of film restoration from the archives from all over the world)
28 June-5 July
Via Galliera, 8-40121 Bologna, Italia
Tel: +39-51-237 088
Fax: +39-51-261 680
Festival director: Gianluca Farinelli
Nantucket Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Nantucket, Massachusetts
1996 festival/event DATES: June 19-23, 1996
1997 festival/event DATES: June 17-22, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: P.O. Box 688 Prince Street Station
town: New York
country: USA
post code: 10012
office telephone: 212-642-6339
office fax:
office e-mail address: ackfest@aol.com
website: www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
name of festival DIRECTOR: Jonathan Burkhart, Executive Director
Jill Goode, Artistic Director
name of festival PROGRAMMER:
Deadline for entry: April 18, 1997
- market? yes/no no
- competition? yes/no yes - screenplay competition
Last winning film: films are non-competitive
Cinema Expo International (Amsterdam)
29 June-2 July
244 West 49th Street #200, New York 10019, US
Tel: +1-212-246 6460
Fax: +1-212-265 6428
Bellaria Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
Viale Paolo Guidi 108, 47041 Bellaria, Italy
Tel: +39-541 347 186
Fax: +39-541 347 186
Festival directors: Enrico Ghezzi, Roberto Silvestri, Antonio Costa, Morando Morandini
Competition
Golden Seagull and Short Video Competition
Caribbean Film and Video Festival (Images Caribbean), Martinique
June (dates tbc)
77 Route de la Folie, 97200 Fort-de France
Tel: +596-70 23 81
Fax: +596-63 23 91
Cologne Conference
June (dates tbc)
Adolf Grimme Institut, Im Mediapark 5b, 50670 Köln, Germany
Tel: +49-221-454 3280
Fax: +49-221-454 3289
E-Mail: 100776.2621@compuserve.com
Festival director: Lutz Hachmeister
Festival programmer: Martina Richter
Competition & Market
Fantafestival (Rome)
June (dates tbc)
Via Palestro 78, Rome, 00185 Italy
Tel: +39-6 807 6999
Fax: +39-6 494 1198
Festival Internacional de Curtas metragens (Vila do Conde)
End of June (dates tbc)
Auditorio Municipal-Praga da Republica, 4480 Vila do Conde, Portugal
Tel: +351-52-641 644
Fax: +351-52-642871
Festival directors/programmers: M Dias, M Micaelo, R Maia, D Oliveira, J Rodrigues
Market and competition
Great Prize City of Vila do Conde (Esc500,000)
Previous winner: Breathing Lesson: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien (Jessica Yu) US
French-American Film Workshop (New York /Avignon)
End of June (dates tbc)
10 Montée de la Tour, 30400 Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France
Tel: +33-90 25 93 23
Fax: +33-90 25 93 24
Festival director: Jerome Henry Rudes
Tel: +1-212-343 2675
Fax: +1-212-343 1849
Competition
Tournage Awards (US$26,000)
Previous winner: The Woman in the Moon (Ariadne Kimberly), Select Hotel (Laurent Bouhnik)
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (New York City and Los Angeles)
Mid June (dates tbc)
Human Rights Watch, New York, 10017 US
Tel: +1-212-972 8400
Fax: +1-212-972 0905
E-Mail: hardinh@hrw.org
Festival director: Bruni Burres
Festival programmer: Bruni Burres, Heather Harding
Kalingrad Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
1 Ploshchad Pbedy, Kaliningrad 236000, Russia
Tel: +7-0112 21 89 26
Fax: +7-0112-21 16 77
Contact: Alexandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae
La Rochelle International Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
16 rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-48 06 16 66
Fax: +33-1-48 06 15 40
Festival director: Jean-Loup Passek
Festival programmer: Sylvie Pras-Pruneengler
Market
London Jewish Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
South Bank, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT, UK
Tel: +44-171-815 1323/4
Fax: +44-171-633 0786
E-Mail: jane.ivey@bfi.org.uk
Executive director: Sheila Whitaker
Festival programmer: Davina Stanley
Marketskaya
June (dates tbc)
c/o Seineva Organisation, 10 Rue La Boatie, 75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-53 76 16 28
Fax: +33-1-45 61 94 27
Contact: Gerard Dijoud
MediaNet Award
June (date tbc)
c/o IMF GmbH, Kaiserstraße 39, D-80801 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 38 19 040
Fax: +49-89 38 19 04 61
Festival: Eberhard Hauff
Competition
Gold Award (DM25,000), Silver (DM15,000), Bronze (DM10,000)
Previous winner: Return to the Dying Rooms (Kate Lewett)
Mystfest-International Mystery Film Festival
Late June
Centro Culturale Polivalente Piazza Della Repubblica 31, 47036 Cattolica, Italy
Tel: +39-541-967802
Fax: +39-541-967803
E-Mail: mystfest@cattolica.net
Festival director: Prof. Paolo Fabbri
Festival programmer: Claudio Carabba
Competition
Best Film Award
Previous winner: What I Have Written (John Hughes)
Newark Black Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
The Newark Museum, 49 Washington St, P.O. Box 540, Newark, New Jersey 07101-0540, US
Tel: +1-201 596 6550
Fax: +1-201 642 0459
Festival coordinator: Jane Stein
Biannual competition
Best Feature Documentary
Deadline for entry: 1 March 1997
Norwegian Short Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
Storengvn 8B, N-1342 Jar
Tel: +47-67 12 20 13
Fax: +47-67 12 48 65
Contact: Torun Nyen
Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
June (dates tbc)
PO Box 6838 St Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo
Tel: +47-22 36 19 48
Fax: +47-22 36 28 03
Contact: Anne Mette Johnsen
June (dates tbc)
V Haji 15, Prague 7, 17000 Czech Republic
Tel: +42-2-66795 421/2/3
Fax: +42-2-66795405/400
Festival director: Martin Pachovsky
Festival programmer: John Riley
Competition
The Golden Golem
Previous winner: Things I Never Told You (Isabel Coixet)
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and Frameline Media Market
June (dates tbc)
346 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Tel: +1-415-703 8650
Fax: +1-415-861 1404
E-Mail: FRAMELINE@aol.com
Festival director: Michael Lumpkin
Competition
Audience award
Previous winner: Stonewall (Nigel Finch)
Deadline for entry: 24 February 1997
Showbiz Expo West
June (dates tbc)
2122 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027, US
Tel: +1-213-668 1811/714-513 8400
Fax: +1-213-668 1033/714 513 8481
Contact: Mary Anderson Harris
Festival/event TOWN: Padova, Italy
1996 festival/event DATES: October 25th-27th
1997 festival/event DATES: June 25th-July 1st
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: via dalla Libera 30
town: Padova
country: Italy
post code: 35020
office telephone: +39-49-612210
office fax: +39-49-638412
office e-mail address: tonicorti@geocities.com
website: www.telerete.it/tonicorti
name of festival DIRECTOR: no director, it's a staff
name of festival PROGRAMMER: staff
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry: next year, around the May 30th
Vue Sur les Docs (The International Documentary Film Festival)
June (dates tbc)
3 Square Stalingrad, 13001, Marseille, France
Tel: +33-91 84 40 17
Fax: +33-91 84 38 34
Festival director: Brigitte Rubio
Competition
Grand Prix (FFr50,000)
Previous winner: Krzysztof Kieslowski I’m So So (Krzystof Wierzbicki)
Age d’or Prize
Prizes for the distribution of quality films in Belgium (Brussels)
1-15 July
Royal Film Archive, Ravenstein St 23, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-507 8370
Fax: +32-2-513 1272
Festival director: Gabrielle Claes
Festival programmer: Luao Bettens
Competition
The Age d’or prize (BFr250,000)
Previous winner: Satantango (Bela Tarr)
FILM-FEST VADUZ (Principality of Liechtenstein)
Film-Festival of Small European States (under 1 mio inhabitants)
Festival/event TOWN: VADUZ - CAPITAL OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN
1996 festival/event DATES:
1997 festival/event DATES: 20th june till 13th july 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Verein Film-Fest Vaduz
Daniel Quaderer
Aeulestrasse 2
9490 Vaduz
Principality of Liechtenstein
Europe
phone ++41 75 232 31 18
fax ++41 75 232 31 93
E-mail dquader@quaderer.lol.li
website: may 97
name of festival DIRECTOR: Daniel Quaderer
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Denise Heeb
Deadline for entry 10th may 97
- market? no
- competition? yes
Name of major award: Frderungspreis
Value of award: CHF 1'000.--
ist of all Film Festivals 06/97 Worldwide
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